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Ostr. Berlin P. 12131

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SPK (P)
Inventory Number Ostr. Berlin P. 12131
Publication Number ined. (to be published in BGU)
Current Location magazine
Publication Permission Status permission for publication assigned
Publication Status unpublished

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos]
Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance District Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery archaeological excavation
Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser) Rubensohn, Otto (excavation director)
Certainty: high
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]

Object

Object Type ostracon
Dating between 174 and 176
Criteria for Dating date according to tax collector's time of office
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at left and bottom

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) broken at left and bottom
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, hand of Aiboutios Niger
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 8
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for contributions
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Receipt of Aiboutios Niger and Iulius Serenus, praktores of Elephantine, for several contributions for military purposes: for merismos kephalaiou en prochreia praisidiou --- and expenses for recruits (dapanas teironon), paid by Psais the elder, son of Psais and Thinpatrasnouphis
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text no transcript to by published in BGU
Multilingualism Script = Language Monolingual
Gender Man Woman
Comment on Gender mother in filiation
Religion unknown

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
4466 man Aiboutios Niger praktor Αἰβούτιος Νίγερ Latin
12710 man Iulius Serenus practor Iulius Serenus Greek, Ancient
4571 man Psais, the elder, son of (Psais and) Thinpatrasnouphis Ψαις pre-Coptic Egyptian / Greek

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Marcus Aurelius 16 175 CE 176 CE date according to the collector's time of office; or year 17?;

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 317212
last Change 29.07.2022
Berlpap 09951
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer; BerlPap
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 317212 (= Ostr. Berlin P. 12131 ), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer; BerlPap.